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That history cannot repeat, which is an idea infused with both European Weltschmerz and hopeful American gusto, finds resonance in Mahler’s greatest contribution to compositional technique

His absence here speaks every cliché in the world: “louder than words,” certainly louder than de La Grange’s logorrhea

living on the same Manhattan island, just blocks south, but they in sumptuary garb, practicing traditions from centuries past

Keller was citing Mahler’s Third Symphony, which contrasts its scherzo with the scherzo’s historical forerunner, the courtly minuet.

Conversely, giving a summary of these books is like producing a Mahler medley, condensing periphrastic brass into a brief fanfare